There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
GEORGE ELIOTQuarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
More George Eliot Quotes
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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